Think of it in terms of the cliche
about romantic breakups: It's not you, it's me.
Not exact matches
They found that people high in the psychological attribute called attachment anxiety (a tendency to worry
about the proximity and availability of a
romantic partner) responded to memories of a relationship
breakup with an increased preference for warm - temperature foods over cooler ones: soup over crackers.
I chose to write
about our
breakup, and the subsequent relationships that followed in my bestselling book, The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful
Romantic Looking for Love Online, which was released seven years ago on Valentine's Day.
There has been a growing body of research on how
romantic couple members help each other complete their goals (e.g., check out our posts here and here), but recently researchers set out to examine what happens to goal pursuit after
breakup.1 To do this, researchers asked people
about a goal that they were pursuing (e.g., getting good grades) and how well their
romantic partner helped them towards attaining the goal (e.g., the extent to which their partner helped).